The Congolese president is expected to travel to Tripoli and Benghazi in early December in his capacity as chairman of the African Union's high-level committee on the Libyan crisis.

Two representatives of the US giant Heinz Foods are currently in The Seychelles finalizing negotiations to take over the state-owned tuna canning plant Conserveries de l'Océan Indien (ION N° 649).

In just one year, the Pan-African Youth Union will have had no less than three executive directors. The most recent appointment, which was made a few weeks ago, was that of Imane Ibn El Melih, a ...

Two years after Cyclone Idai tore through Sofala province in central Mozambique, the state-owned electricity firm Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is looking to contract a company to replace the 110 ...

The cabinet director of Madagascar's prime minister Tantely Andrianarivo is a woman, Ms. Ramisandrazana Rakotoarintseheno. Born in 1958 and now bringing up an adopted child as a single mother, ...

Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam on November 24 suspended Raj Dayal as police commissioner after a long-running dispute (ION N° 787) and appointed a special inquiry commission headed by former chief ...

N'Djamena is strengthening its diplomatic presence in Paris by changing its ambassador. In the past few weeks, Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Annadif put forward the name of Ahmad Makaila, the current ...

The CEO of French bank Credit Agricole, Philippe Brassac, is expected in Cairo over the next few days to take part in the CICA's (Confédération Internationale du Crédit agricole) annual congress, ...

The cancellation last week of the decree appointing Armand Ralaidovy to be coordinator of the World Bank health project known as Cresan was not enough to pacify the Bretton Woods institutions. Two ...

The corporate brand and communication manager (since 1995) of Shell on Mauritius has been chosen by the government as board chairman of Export Processing Zones Development Authority (EPZDA), taking ...

He served briefly as adviser to prime minister Jacques Sylla from 2002 to 2004 but, since then, has avoided taking political sides too openly in public. He has not forgotten the problems encountered ...